Instagram has officially launched its new Teen Accounts feature, marking one of Meta's biggest efforts to date to bolster safety for its youngest users online. The new accounts, automatically assigned ...

The social media app says new privacy settings and features will create more age-appropriate experiences for youth under 18. By Natasha Singer Natasha Singer covers children’s online privacy. Tens of ...

What Are Instagram ‘Spam’ Accounts? Today, much of what used to live on finstas has now migrated to private Snapchat stories. And unlike those hidden finstas on Instagram, the majority of today’s spam ...

We’re rolling out easier ways to get account support and updates to keeping your Facebook and Instagram accounts even more ...

Saheb Gulati, a senior headed to Stanford University, scrolls his Instragram feed last week at Sacramento Country Day School. (Louis Bryant III/For the Washington Post) Column by Geoffrey A. Fowler ...

Meta is introducing additional safety features for teen users on its Instagram platform, including new safeguards in direct messaging aimed at preventing what the company calls "direct and indirect ...

In this photo illustration a 13-year-old boy looks at an iPhone screen display on May 21, 2025 in Bath, England. Reporter Instagram announced new restrictions for teen accounts on Tuesday amid ...

Discovering that your Instagram account has been hacked is never going to be fun. But the good news is that it's usually fairly straightforward to get access back — and to keep yourself a bit safer in ...

Discovering that your Instagram account has been hacked is always going to cause concern, but in most cases, it's fairly straightforward to recover your account. With more than 2.4 billion active ...